Amanpour: Iran's Revolution Echoes in Today's Tensions

0:00It's March 25th. Welcome in. This is Entertainment and Celebrity News, where pop culture meets AI. I'm Cory with the story. Christian Eman-Poor, CNN's chief international anchor, who grew up in Tehran until age 11 recently shared her first hand take on Iran's history in, a chat with Katie Couric. She zeroed in on the 1979 revolution, a massive uprising that toppled the U.S.-backed Shah-Mohamed Reza-Phalavi, and reshaped the nation in just one year. Back in 1978, Eman-Poor happened to be in Iran during a break between high school and college. Protests swelled against the monarchies' tight grip on free speech, journalism, and political life, catching her off guard and pulling her into the chaos. Many Iranians hit the streets hoping for a secular democracy and civil society, but the revolution took a sharp turn. They never saw coming. The Shah fled with his family. Ayatollah Khomeini returned from exile, and an Islamic theocracy emerged instead, leading

1:02to 47 years of. Repression and repeated waves of unrest. Eman-Poor ties it all to today's global tensions, framing them not as a fresh crisis, but as echoes of that unresolved past still rippling through. Iran's story.